Chesapeake Colonies

Geography The Virginia charter colony had a very unique geography. In the west are the beautiful Appalachian mountains. Also near the appalachian mountains is the blue ridge valley. There is a huge number of amazing rivers and lakes.There is also the tide waters, which are coastal plains. This area has very rich soil that is great for farming. There is also the massive Chesapeake bay which is a great place to trade and find food. Climate There is amazing weather in Virginia. The climate is…

respectable land. Starting in the early 1600’s, the Virginia Company wanted a settlement in America. The Chesapeake colonies, including Virginia and Maryland first established the town of Jamestown. “Jamestown was intended to become the core of a long-term settlement effort, creating new wealth for the London investors and recreating English society in North America” (Grymes). As for the New England colonies, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island soon became settled…

Although the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled by basically English, each region was clearly different than the other. This could have happened for many reasons, but difference in how the families were structured and the effect of religion on each region were probably two very big influences on the different developments of the societies. In New England, people who immigrated there came mostly in the form of families. In 1635, "Ship's List of Emigrants bound for New England,"…

Raleigh launched three voyages to the new world under Queen Elizabeth I. The first of these three voyages was merely a scouting expedition. Sir Walter sent Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe in 1584 to explore the new world and find a place to establish a colony. Moreover, Captain Amadas and Captain Barlowe had landed on the barrier islands of what is known as the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Thanks to the guidance of Portuguese navigator, Simon Fernando. Simon Fernando was an experienced sailor…

baffling researchers and theorists for centuries. The Lost Colony of Roanoke came to the New World in search for a new place to call home and a brand new chance at a new life. The Roanoke Island is surrounded by land or some sort of barrier with only one clear entrance which makes it decently protected from ships. It was also plentiful in land, with vast and lush green forests going for miles. At first, it seemed like the perfect area for a new colony, but only shortly after they began to settle…

Slavery and Indentured servants were Vital to the success of the British colonies in North America in the 1600’s and 1700’s, because having slaves and Indentured servants are how the colonist were able to grow the British colonies. Jamestown was in a bad place and were struggling to stay together as a colony. Jamestown then discovered tobacco. Tobacco was brought from the Caribbean islands. The colonies began growing tobacco and were soon shipping up to 50,000 pounds of tobacco a year England.…

The Colony of Roanoke The Roanoke colony was the most famous failed colony in all. It began when Sir Walter Raleigh wanted to explore the East Coast of North America. In the expedition, his ships landed on Roanoke Island on July 4, 1584, and his men examined the shore. The people returned successfully. Because of this, Raleigh founded his second journey. He sent 100 people to the island of Roanoke on April 9, 1585, with high hopes of establishing a new colony. Unfortunately, things were not…

They had many differences, but they shared many large similarities; most colonists were quite religious, the colonies had economically stable middle classes, and all the colonists are British people living in the New World. Although they had their differences, their similarities are what allowed them to band together to really oppose the King and Parliament. If…

The first African slaves in Britain’s North American colonies arrived at Jamestown in 1619. WHY? A century and half later, with the American Revolution on the horizon, slavery had become an institution, a pillar of society, in those southern colonies which found it particularly economically profitable and soon to be extinct in the northern colonies that did not. The Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland were the first to develop large enslaved populations, because of the labor…

The southern colonies were worth more to the British because the southern colonies produced staple crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo. Georgia and most of South Carolina was under British control by 1780 by General Cornwallis. The British burned Patriot farms, livestock, and take their slaves.…